Structure
Hard Hatted Women is a nonprofit 501(C)(3) organization, incorporated in the State
of Ohio. Founded in 1979, Hard Hatted Women originally functioned as a
support group for women in nontraditional jobs. It was solely
volunteer-operated until it hired its first staff person in 1990.
HHW’s Board of Directors is 14 members strong
and represents an excellent mix of tradeswomen and professionals from both the
private and public sector who share a strong commitment to the mission. Three
members have served for multiple years and/or have had previous service on the
HHW Board.
HHW Women maintains
a paid staff of four (two full
time and two part time), who maintain core functions while they
direct and work with an amazing group of VISTA workers, volunteers,
interns and contracted support.
Working with the Board, the
Executive Director develops and implements corporate strategy and she
directs and supervises all supervisory staff.
She remains heavily engaged in local, state and national efforts that
contribute to new and equal opportunities for women, as well as attempting to
correct the gender pay gap still existing between men and women. (Despite efforts over the last 80 years,
women makes an average of 80 cents for every dollar a man gets paid for doing
similar work!)
The Director of
Supportive Services and Leadership Development provides and/or ensures
women have access to one-on-one career counseling, barrier removal assistance
and career pathway development. She also coordinates programs such as the role
model speakers' bureau, the tradeswomen mentoring program and the tradeswomen
liaison program.
The Business Manager is
responsible for all accounting functions, human resource administration and building
and technology infrastructure, as well as maintenance of an effective database
system, communications and development.
Due to a shared mission of alleviating poverty with the national Americorp/VISTA
program, HHW is delighted to have been selected as a host for seven VISTA members. These individuals
will be working to support both Tradeswomen TOOLS implementation and expansion
of our youth education programs, as well as supporting HHW communications,
development and advocacy activities. HHW has the capacity to take on this
number of volunteers due to the expertise of our staff who each have
significant experience in supervision and program management, and due to strong
community partnerships.
HHW has been
blessed with the efforts of a number of dedicated Volunteers, who often carry out programmatic and professional level
functions. This includes:
§
Program Assistant, 10 hours a week
§ Role Model Speakers
Coordinator, 4 hours a week
§ Tradeswomen instructors, role
model speakers, mentors and math tutors (as needed)
To find out
existing needs and how you can join our volunteer staff, please consult the volunteer section of this website.